Over the past three days, Southern California has been grappling with the aftermath of an atmospheric river event, leading to widespread flooding across the region. The atmospheric river brought heavy…
Adam PrellFebruary 6, 2024
Governor Gavin Newsom is Working with the White House and CalOES to Prepare Just days after the last damaging storm, California is preparing for another wave of large and potentially…
John MeadJanuary 9, 2023
President Biden is set this week to sign the Inflation Reduction Act, which, in part, attempts to tackle climate change. The bill, which narrowly passed the Senate Floor along party…
Adam PrellAugust 17, 2022
Cascading Disasters Cascading disasters are when a prior disaster either causes a later disaster, or makes a later disaster much worse. Sometimes they have an obvious cause and effect, sometimes…
John MeadMarch 17, 2022
A storm system brought record-breaking rain to California this past weekend when it impacted the state as well as the Pacific Northwest. While firefighters welcomed the rain to the massive…
Hannah JonesOctober 27, 2021
Tropical Storm Fred is the sixth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It was tracking just south of Puerto Rico and is likely to impact the Southeast US…
Hannah JonesAugust 11, 2021
Extremely cold, wintry weather continues to impact the Central and Southern US with another storm on the horizon. As a result, at the peak over four million homes were without…
Hannah JonesFebruary 17, 2021
Catastrophe struck Central America as two back-to-back Category 4 hurricanes came ashore this past month. Eta and Iota made landfall in the region on November 3rd and November 17th, with…
Hannah JonesDecember 16, 2020
Hurricane Iota tumbled into Central America late last night, where countries are still recovering from Hurricane Eta. The storm made landfall as a Category 4 Hurricane, near the town of…
Hannah JonesNovember 17, 2020
